Francine Du Plessix Gray

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are t ...

The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the ...

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionar ...

I write because in the act of creation there comes that mysterious, abundant sense of being both par ...

As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coat ...

The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the ...

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cult ...

One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious le ...

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent ...

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sad ...

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

“Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.”

Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and b ...